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Andy Enos,
Billy Cox,
Colin Sussingham,
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Deville,
Max Hull,
Xeno Tsarnas,
Zander Taketomo
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Joe Scordo,
Johnny Wilson,
Karim Gohem,
Paul Overstrom,
Rob Collins,
Sam McKenna
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Nobo McManus,
Travis Storer,
Matt Lilly,
Luke Mckaye,
Matt Karlin
Web Homie:
Sloan Palder
Illustration:
Will Laren
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Cover: James Pitonyak, bs lip, p- Scott Patricelli
Left: Devin Colon, half cab flip p- Dave Durfey
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Content
AZ to NJ
Stop Fakin 2
Dylan James
Pushing Plywood
Colin Sussingham
Ramps out back
Street Improvement
Words and photo
by Ethan RHoads
As far as summer road trips go, the crosscountry trek is a classic for skaters and
randoms alike. But in reality, if your final
destination is the greatest city in the world,
New York City, why bother wasting precious
time driving through the shitty states like
Kansas or Oklahoma? Our hospitable
homies on the East Coast, who come to visit
us in Phoenix during the winter, invited us
to come stay with them. Chip, Adrian and
myself, finally saved up enough greenbacks
to fly directly to Newark to kick off a 9 day
adventure tour of New Jersey, Philadelphia,
and the Big Apple to start our summer.
John Gardner, Tran Man Extraordinaire,
was waiting at Newark to swoop us back
to his stomping grounds of Whitehouse
Station, NJ, but not before a quick stop at
a mini ramp/bonfire in the woods courtesy
of the Spooner brothers. Their rural setup
was wicked fun and the beers, bowls, and
bros welcome was well received. New Jersey
would prove to be a Build-Your-Own Ramp
haven over the next few days, with multiple
sessions at the Gesko’s backyard setup, a
prep school with a skatepark in the basement
(thanks Nob) and Ann Van skatepark, which
was renovated by locals. After some drizzly
days of street and park skating, and a kicking
college graduation party for our man Paul
Overstrom, we made the drive to Philly for
three reasons every skater should know; Love
Park, FDR, and OG 3 Block.
We sparked the day in Philly with some
warm up runs at 9th and Poplar and worked
our way to “the blob” a Sloan Palder creation.
We headed to FDR to meet up with Andrew
and Mitchell Wilson returning from Florida,
and they killed it fresh off the plane. After
some grinding there, we returned to the crib,
and prepared for a night of souling through
Philadelphia. The rush of pushing through
the streets is incomparable to anywhere back
home and we rolled about 10 deep up to
Love after dark. We got a good hour long
session before two boards were broken and
so was our spirit for the night. We skated back to
Paul’s to watch skate videos while Chip duct-taped
Mickey’s 40’s to his hands.
We made the drive into Brooklyn the next day,
and went straight to Johnny, Colin, Paul, Dylan and
Andrew’s place. The Wilson’s and everyone showed
us a great time right away, taking us to the colors
manual pads in the projects, a proper city welcome.
The next 4(?) days were a blur consisting of $11 packs
of Newports, $1.50 Coors Banquet tall cans, weed
delivery, spliffs, pushing around Brooklyn, BBQs,
Kennedy Pizza at 2 a.m., and skating some of the
best, worst, and most known spots and parks that
Brooklyn, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Queens had to
offer. There was a good session everyday and multiple
nights, since a lot of the homies were in town for
Johnny’s Vid to premier. The premier party/art show
was more fun than a barrel of monkeys, with photos
by Joe Scordo, Phil Jackson and others I think, and the
video was overboard stoke! Everyone killed it in there,
and the music was choice, and then some bands played
after. We managed to get two more Manhattan night
sessions with the notorious Kevin Winters, before we
had to call it a trip and go back to real life. John was
nice enough to take us back to Newark for our flight
home before he headed to Woodward for the summer.
When asked what his favorite thing about the East
was, Adrian automatically says “Bodegas!”, while
Chip had to say that his was “buying beer with Haar.”
My personal favorite thing is a tie between the actual
streets, and the slices of pizza, both so New York.
Even with slight spots of rain, food poisoning, broken
boards, overcrowded cars, and seeing that bum pissing
at the street in broad daylight, the trip went as perfect
as possible and it was all thanks to everyone we skated
with, stayed with, drank with smoked with, and made
friends with. You all know who is what and whowhat.
Thanks to Skate Jawn, Tran John, and everyone out
East for helping us make this happen. AZ Connect,
we out yo.
Doug Griffe/ blind boneless fakie/ p- Rob Reed
Sloan ollie in center shitty
Stop
Fakin
2
A film by Smalls & Feldt
Photos by Cj Harker, Walt Wolfe,
sam rothstein, & Zander
piss bowl
latenight + piff
Jerz
in between naps on staircases, Stan back tailed crust
10:05 pm
this rail claimed three lives in one hour
fastplant
barefoot slash
Dylan James
photos by Colin Sussingham
How long have you been living in NYC?
I’ve lived in New York my whole life, but
I moved to Brooklyn in 2007 for school at
Pratt.
What’s yr favorite thing about Philly?
Rolling 30 deep to every spot. Actually that
kinda sucks most of the time. Rolling 30 deep
to FDR.
What’s yr least favorite thing about NYC?
Rent
Do you still have that book you made of
spots from quartersnacks?
Hah yeah I think so, at my parents house.
They called me out on that and I didn’t know
whether to be stoked or embarrassed.
Where you trying to road trip to?
We wanna go to the Mid West, Chicago,
Detroit, Minneapolis, Cincinnati? No real
plan yet, just trying to go the last week in
August.
You like the South?
We went on a trip down there almost exactly
a year ago, destination New Orleans. I like
the skating, food, and country music. I can do
without the summer heat though.
You ever been to Georgia ?
I went on a trip with a bunch of dudes in
early 2009 and me and four others got thrown
in jail for trying to skate that water park.
What ended up happening ?
I was the last person put in the patty wagon,
so the cop stuffed everyone’s IDs in my
pocket. When they took all of my stuff at
central booking they had all the IDs still
under my possession. I end up staying there
overnight. Around 6 am I get called and
I’m thinking, thank god I’m finally out.
Unfortunately it was just to give permission
to let one of the guys that didn’t get arrested
to get the IDs from my possessions. They
needed ID at the bank to get enough money
out to bail us out. I didn’t realize that they
had to give him all my stuff. When I finally
got bailed out after like 24 hours I
had none of my stuff so I had to
walk out of jail in a paper jumpsuit
and socks.
What’s yr favorite animal?
Dogs are the best
You draw a lot of giraffes and
other animals too though?
Yeah, most of my artwork is
based around animals. I like all the
different textures and patterns on
them, and when I started doing
wood and lino cuts the textures and
patterns translated really well.
How did you end up doing a
series of skating dog boards for
Hopps?
I made a book with similar
skateboarding dog drawings and
put a photo copy version of it
up in some kcdc art show a while
back. I’ve skated with Jahmal a
few times, here and there, over the
years. One day he approached me
and complimented me on the work
at kcdc, and I asked about doing
a board. We didn’t talk for a while
5050 fs wallride
stalefish
after that and I figured he was over it, but one
day he called me up and asked to do a three
board series.
Can you miller flip?
Poor man’s invert. I’m pretty sure they ruined
any chances of me doing a fs invert, just keep
over rotating.
Can you wizard flip?
Is that 360 heelflip? My board is limited to
kickflips only.
Nah, it’s drinking enough beers till yr
wizard staff is above yr head and doing a
kickflip.
I got the wizard fs blunt.
Why do you always skate to country
music?
Skate Jawn Vid wasn’t too country.
Everything else is wack.
Eminem or Blink 182?
Blink. My Eminem cd was edited, Blink said
fuck.
Who is Dylan Goldberger?
I used to be really bummed on my last name
so I just said my middle name instead.
How often do you black out?
Less then last summer.
Why don’t you wear shoes when you
skate?
Cause I never have socks, and shoes and no
socks sucks.
Thanks / shout outs?
Every one at 614 and all the other homies.
Sundays Zine, Prize Fighter, Hard Times,
Beerings, and the homies at Vans, Amy at
KCDC. Dennis McNett is the best boss
ever. Thanks 2nd Nature for supporting
me forever. Thanks Max Hull for going out
filming with me since I could stand on my
board. SKATE JAWN KILLS IT. Fuck, I
know I’m forgetting something.
fs wallride
PUSHING
PLYWOOD
text by Nobo McManus
Travis Knapp Prasek bs noseblunt p- Ian Brunkow
Pushing Plywood is a collection of homies,
companies, and hoodlums based in San
Francisco. We skateboard for the love of
skateboarding, and put out monthly edits
showcasing all the simple pleasures that come
along with skating with the homies.
“It’s about you and your crew fully
enjoying the act of killing time and dodging
life’s requirements/standards through the
act of pushing around on a piece of wood.”
Says Travis Knapp-Prasek, the resident
photographer/wanderer of the group. The
monthly edits are around 6-8 minutes long and
drop within the first week of every month on
their youtube channel, and are viewed coast to
coast and worldwide. The vibe you get from
watching these clips is the fun we so easily
forget skateboarding can be. Thus the motto
“keep pushing.” There’s footage of anyone
that wants to get in front of one of the many
cameras they have roaming the four corners of
the bay daily. Each month the crew gets bigger
and the tricks get gnarlier. The movement is
only enhanced through their affiliates, Leftside
Skateboards and Swarmlife.net.
Eden Powers, sw 180 nosegrind
p-Travis Knapp Prasek
Mark Nicholson, noseblunt p-Ian Brunkow
Steve Dombrowski,
bs smith p- Ian Brunkow
Steve Dombrowski, blunt revert p- TKP
Zach Curran/ ooped bs 180
p- Travis Knapp Prasek
“Skateboarding is a gnarly,
beautiful thing.” Says Ron
Rodriguez, the mastermind/
editor of Pushing Plywood.
Ron is a strong supporter of
community, skateboarding, and
music and his edits combine
these sensations perfectly.
“Pushing Plywood, to me is the
universal bond that we all share.
It’s the connection that makes
us brothers and sisters. You can
push plywood all over the world
and not speak another language
but you have this universal bond
with anyone who rides and is
down for life. Shout out to my
Skulls MCR crew. Check out Joe
Gavin, FL crew, and SF fam.”
Expect a lot of great things to
come from this ever-expanding
crew, and stay up to date on
their Facebook page for each
months drop! and remember
kiddies, KEEP PUSHING!
Ian Brunkow/ fs flip
p- Travis Knapp Prasek
James Ryan, krook
p- Sean Carabarin
Ron Rodriguez fs 180
p- Martin Kliener
Will Laren
WiNNER
Bobby Sutherby wins a skate jawn
shirt for last issues doodle contest
with this
New
Contest
Best doubles skate photo wins a deck.
send photos to homies@skatejawn.com
Jay Burton/ hurricane/ p- Karim
Kevin Bateman/ tailblock/ p- Robert Reed
Derrik Wilson/switch varial heel/ p- Chris McDonald
Victor Tishchenko/bs 50/ p- Sam Bulokonis
Daniel Brahim/fs tail
p- Corey Middleton
Duncan Cowgill/couch slide/ p- Liam Annis
Matt Rondoletto/ fs blunt fakie/ p-Sam Balukonis
Daniel Brahim /p- Corey Middleton
Andrew Connell/ 5-0/
p- Austin Shafkowitz
Tom Hopkin/ boneless
p- Kyle O’Neil
Jon Hoisington/ rock fakie
p- Karim Ghonem
Dan Corrigan/ crail 5-0
p- Chris McDonald
Mike Wojcik/ roll in
p- Kyle O’Neil
Ryan Burge, 5050
p- Overtstrom
p- Overtstrom
Andrew Bumgarner/ ollie
p- Richie McCorkle
Andrew Bumgarner/ fs wallie
p- Richie McCorkle
Natalie Krishna Das
bs grab/ p- Darnell
JZRadical/ tailslide
p- Darnell
Ramps out back
the Geskos
Words by Zach Gesko, photos by Andy Enos
We made the ramp in sections. We started
with the quarter pipe in the middle of the
corners, which we built in ‘08. Then, in 2010
we built the escalator bank with the mellow
corner, and last spring we built the other
corner with 60 year old pool coping we got
from a local pool. We found all the fill and
and scraps right in my back yard. After we
finished that corner, the homies over at
NJ skate shop asked if we were looking to
extend the ramp more, so we couldn’t pass
it up. They hooked it up with the funds to
build a quarter with brick pool coping
on the opposite side of the existing
ramp, which is perfect to do never
ending lines, so thank you Steve and
Chris and NJ. The paint job was just
done in June thanks to the homie Josh
Spooner. The most fun times are the
palooza parties, when we get all the rats
to come out and rage a bon fire, guzzle
beers, and shred the ramp. The only
advice I have for other homies crete-ing
is take your time and plan shit out. I’d
like to thank all the homies that put in
the hard work, and help pay for cement,
Andy Enos, Jordan Gesko, Spooner
brothers, Joe Berger, Paul London, Eric
Elliot, John Gardner, Sloan Palder, and
Steve and Chris at NJ skateshop.
620 Hepburn street, Williamsport, PA.
Colin
Sussingham
Pat Galloway / bs tail
How was the Yankees game?
It was soul, we got real good tickets from
Johnny and Andrew's uncle. Haven't been to
one in a few years so it was real cool.
How long have you lived in NYC?
I've been living in Brooklyn for a little over
five years now, came here from Long Island
to go to Pratt.
What's yr favorite thing about Philly?
It was 1403 but since that's done now, I'll
have to say it's the overall crew that we're with
when we're down there. It’s always a good
time and always some fun little nug skate spot.
Least favorite thing about NYC
Tickets for skating are the worst. I gotta go
to court tomorrow morning for "blocking
pedestrian traffic" (skating on the sidewalk).
That’s burnt. How many tickets have you
gotten in the city?
I don't know, I feel like I get one every
month. Probably like 15. Most of them
get dropped, but some you gotta go in for.
Always a bummer though
How long you been taking photos?
I've been taking photos since I was 15 but
started taking it more seriously when I was
like 18. My mom was a photographer in
France so she always encourages me to keep
shooting which is cool.
You French?
Oui oui French Moroccan.
You film?
I have used a video camera but I would never
say I film. I’m trying to get into it though.
What's Sundays?
Sundays is a zine I started. Focused on
showing new art work, skateboarding, and
music. It’s a 30 x 22 piece of newspaper. One
side is a poster and the other side is full of
submitted artwork from people all over.
What’s the worst job you ever worked?
I have a mini van so I do moving jobs. Last
summer on a 95 degree day, Dylan and I had
to move an entire apartment. A 5th floor walk
up to a 4th floor walk up. Longest day of my
life. I’d rather not have a lot, than work shitty
jobs, so I don't really do them.
John Gardner/car ride
Phil Jackson /bs lip over stairs
Kevin Sanders/heelflip
Tucci /shuv it
You work for Richard Kern right?
Ya I'm his assistant a bunch of the time.
How'd you get into that?
Just emailed him one day. I had seen his vbs
show and I was like this dude is awesome. I
didn't expect a response but he responded
and had me come in to meet him. Sure
enough a few weeks later I was working for
him.
You get to see topless chicks at work?
Ya if I'm not working on a shoot with him
I'll be organizing photos or archiving work
so either way it's nude girls for a majority of
the time.
What’s yr favorite rolling paper?
Couldn't tell ya.
How much do you like Star Wars?
Haha I love Star Wars. I don't care what
people think. I think it's cool. My 8th grade
quote for the yearbook was "do or do not,
there is no try" - Yoda.
Trandrew/ Judo tail
Favorite NYC park?
LES just opened and it's soooooo good.
Grimiest shit you've seen in the subway?
Ended up in an empty car with a dude that
pissed and shat himself. Should've realized
that since no one else was in there.
What bars you go to?
Lucky Dog is a good one, dogs are allowed
and its got a nice backyard. Vanessa's
dumplings isn't a bar but it has two dollar
beers and dollar dumplings so I'll say that too.
If you could go on skate trip to anywhere
tomorrow, where would you go?
It's cliche but Barcelona. Just seems amazing
and there's beaches and pretty women.
Thanks/shout outs?
Shout out to Dylan, Johnny, Andrew, Paul,
Max, Conehead, and riot Chris. The usual
crew that keeps me motivated to keep skating.
ollie
NYC
“Two and a half bags of crete,
thirty minutes of mixing and
pouring, and four cops rolling by
and brunsing us, was all it took for
the Bushwick barrier to go from a
piece of suck to a spot. The cops
didn’t give a shit but the gangsta’s
in the house right next to it came
out and said “Look, I know yall
is skateboarders and yall wanna
have fun and shit, but don’t keep
me up all night.” Needless to say
we only skated it in the daytime.
The barrier was only there for
about two weeks but it was a
fuckin soul one. Really long grinds,
good sidewalk, and a couple fun
sessions. Too bad “gank” never
got to hit it up.” -Andrew
bs flip
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